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"Content Without Context Is Noise": Looking For Curriculum Harmony In Primary Arts Education In Western Australia, Sian Chapman, Peter Wright, Robin Pascoe
"Content Without Context Is Noise": Looking For Curriculum Harmony In Primary Arts Education In Western Australia, Sian Chapman, Peter Wright, Robin Pascoe
Education Papers and Journal Articles
Arts education in Western Australian primary schools consist of learning opportunities outlined by mandated curriculum. However, assumptions underlying this curriculum involving access, resources and support impact schools’ capacity to implement the curriculum without them being adequately addressed by the written curriculum. Drawing on the policy enactment theory of Ball, Maguire, and Braun (2012), four contextual variables (situated contexts, professional cultures, material contexts and external factors) are used to highlight the differences between the written published curriculum and the implemented, practised curriculum. Drawing on interviews with 24 participants across four schools issues of geographic location, use of arts specialists, appropriate learning …
Contemporary Perspectives Of The Child In Action: An Investigation Into Children’S Connectedness With, And Contribution To, The World Around Them, C. Robinson, D. O'Connor, H. Wildy, G. Neylon
Contemporary Perspectives Of The Child In Action: An Investigation Into Children’S Connectedness With, And Contribution To, The World Around Them, C. Robinson, D. O'Connor, H. Wildy, G. Neylon
Education Papers and Journal Articles
Childcare within Australia has undergone significant reform as a result of the implementation of the nationally mandated Belonging, Being and Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework [EYLF] (Department for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations [DEEWR]. 2009. Belonging, Being and Becoming. The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia. Canberra: Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations). The EYLF articulates contemporary perspectives of the child through its principles, practices and learning outcomes. Educators are required to promote these principles, practices and learning outcomes with children aged from birth to 5 years. This paper reports the findings from a research …
I'M Proud To Be A Toy Teacher: Using Cra To Become An Even More Effective Teacher, Derek Hurrell
I'M Proud To Be A Toy Teacher: Using Cra To Become An Even More Effective Teacher, Derek Hurrell
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The role of manipulative materials in mathematics can be a contentious one. It seems that in the mind of some teachers, manipulatives are fine in the early years but have no place in a rigorous maths classroom as the students get older. It is a topic worth our consideration.
Problems & Provocations Around Performance, P-A-R & The Phd, John Freeman
Problems & Provocations Around Performance, P-A-R & The Phd, John Freeman
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This contribution is deliberately intended as a provocation and questions the ways in which knowledge and understanding are articulated in the Performance-as-Research, as well as through the performance itself. The insidious P-a-R status, more like a mantra than a methodology, requires giving voice to some questions. Here the gaze openly addressed to the United Kingdom is here also influenced by two professional experiences at Australian universities; from residences conducted in the United States, Asia and continental Europe; from collaborations with academics in a dozen countries, as well as from participation in evaluation commissions for doctoral research in three different countries. …
Designing Wireframes As Assessment In The Study Of Adolescent Mental Health, Hugo M. Gonzales, Kathie Ardzejewska, Mimi Rivera
Designing Wireframes As Assessment In The Study Of Adolescent Mental Health, Hugo M. Gonzales, Kathie Ardzejewska, Mimi Rivera
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Applications (apps) have become commonplace in the treatment of adolescent mental health problems. This study set out to explore whether it is possible to prepare undergraduate counselling students to use these professional tools, as part of an assessment regime. Using the software “Pencil Project” students enrolled in an undergraduate counselling degree were required to design wireframes for an app to support adolescent mental wellbeing. Evaluation methodology employing a concurrent quan-qual mixed method was used. Marks earned for student presentations of their wireframes, along with marker comments were analysed followed by a thematic analysis of student reflections of their learning experience. …
Guidelines For Designing Middle-School Transition Using Universal Design For Learning Principles, Dianne Chambers, Anne Coffey
Guidelines For Designing Middle-School Transition Using Universal Design For Learning Principles, Dianne Chambers, Anne Coffey
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Transition from primary (elementary) to secondary school can be both an exciting and daunting prospect for young adolescents. Ensuring that students quickly settle into their new secondary school environment is the goal of transition programs employed by schools. These programs typically comprise a number of discrete and interrelated initiatives that often commence in the year prior to the move and continue during the initial months in the new school. These activities generally include specific initiatives for both the students and their parents. The needs of both groups are many and varied. It is critical that whatever transition events and strategies …
“Stickiness”: Gauging Students’ Attention To Online Learning Activities, Ainslie Robinson, David Cook
“Stickiness”: Gauging Students’ Attention To Online Learning Activities, Ainslie Robinson, David Cook
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Purpose: Online content developers use the term “stickiness” to refer to the ability of their online service or game to attract and hold the attention of users and create a compelling and magnetic reason for them to return repeatedly (examples include virtual pets and social media). In business circles, the same term connotes the level of consumer loyalty to a particular brand. This paper aims to extend the concept of “stickiness” not only to describe repeat return and commitment to the learning “product”, but also as a measure of the extent to which students are engaged in online learning …
Revitalising Professional Learning For Experienced Principals: Energy Versus Ennui, Michael R. O'Neill, Shane Glasson
Revitalising Professional Learning For Experienced Principals: Energy Versus Ennui, Michael R. O'Neill, Shane Glasson
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This article contributes to the limited body of literature pertaining to attempts by educational systems to satisfy the professional learning needs of experienced principals, defined as those with more than 10 years of experience in at least two schools. Specifically, this article illustrates the Catholic Education Office of Western Australia’s endeavour to create an innovative, integrated, cross-sectoral program to enhance the leadership capabilities and health and wellbeing outcomes of experienced principals from Catholic, Government and Independent schools in that state. The program comprised four integrated pillars: a 360-degree review of participant leadership capabilities followed by executive coaching to effect improvement; …